four onagers in a unit

[rageallday]

is there anyway i can reduce this to 2(i am playing on large)



Thanks,Joe

[dvk901]

type onager
dictionary onager
category siege
class missile
voice_type Light_1
soldier greek_peasant, 15, 5, 1 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The second number in the line above is the number of onagers.
The first number in that line is the total number of units that man those onagers.

[rageallday]

what file is this?

i can't seem to find anything to do with 'dictionairy' etc?

[Herodotus of Halicarnassus]

its in descr model units

[rageallday]

i did a search for the above in the data folder but it cannot be found?


could you go into a little more detail, because it can't be found.

the file is non existent in my data folder, anyway..

[Herodotus of Halicarnassus]

its actually descr model unit its one of the very last files in data

[dvk901]

This file in the 'data' folder:

export_descr_unit.txt

To be exact.

[Leeham991]

Hey...

Does that mean that a group of Roman archer models could man 10 scorpions?

[Herodotus of Halicarnassus]

sure but they couldn't fire arrows themselves

[ISA Gunner]

Would only work as Romans though. Other factions that use scorpions don't have Roman Archer models and so you would have a skinless unit using them, which really sucks.

[Leeham991]

I only play as Romans

I was just thinking that in real life the Romans liked to take quite a few scorpions out with them, I just thought it would be cool to actually have a 2 scorpions per cohort.

[rory o'kane]

as i understand it, it was one scorpion per century and one onager per cohort...

[Leeham991]

as i understand it, it was one scorpion per century and one onager per cohort...

Even better

[rory o'kane]

that's in a legion, by the way. as far as i'm aware, the auxilia possessed no indigenous artillery. so per legion you have (yes, 59. 1 per century, so 6 per cohort, and there were 9 regular cohorts, so that's 54, and the 1st cohort was made up of 5 double strength cohorts, so it has 5 scorpions, making a total of 59 scorpions). that's a lot of firepower for the ancient world. that said, they weren't usually employed in field battles, but usually during an attack on, or the defence of fortifications. however, they were used in some field battles (Arrian used them in his battleplan against the Alani in 135 A.D.).

[Leeham991]

So you would say that if I changed to 25 scorpions a unit then I could take one unit out on field and two units for fort attack/defense.

Would that work?

[rory o'kane]

it'd be HUGELY imbalanced... but whatever, i guess so... remember that the units in RS are scaled down from real life, due to engine constraints - an infantry cohort is about 1/3 scale - so if you think about it that way, you should really only have 20 scorpions in a legion (still, ridiculously imbalanced!), and 4 onagers.

[Leeham991]

I don't think it would really be imbalanced at the end of it. After all, the Romans did pwn in medium range combat. And I would look at other cultures and change their arti amounts to balance it out a little more.

[rory o'kane]

but that also means one unit of scorpions would be ridiculously powerful... i wonder what an army of them would do?

[Leeham991]

I'ma try it

Can't wait till the weekend!